Flywheel for 1600 Crossflow

[peterw]

I am looking for another flywheel for my Formula Ford which has the Cortina/Escort 1600 Crossflow engine.

I always relied on Small Four at Padstow but they are long gone.

Anyone know anywhere in Sydney South that carries bits for Cortinas/Escorts?

Cheers
Pete

[LG17]

Have you tried Paul at Fourd Performance?

[peterw]

Small Four at Padstow are now Small Ford at Minto. Saw Brian today and got a flywheel. Good to see someone has bits for our cars.

Pete

[TER2BO]

Hi , As a Historic Racer of Cortinas I am surprised you would be using a Standard Ford Flywheel.
I am not across the regs for Formula Ford but we always use a machined Steel Flywheel.(unless the 1600 had a steel one)
The reason of course is that Cast ones tend to shatter with bits flying off in every direction, possibly wrecking parts of the car and injuring people. I saw one let go at Winton Raceway and 4 cars ended up with serious damage .
There other other advantages which I won't go into here in case the FF regs don't allow them.

[peterw]

Originally Posted by TER2BO

Hi , As a Historic Racer of Cortinas I am surprised you would be using a Standard Ford Flywheel.
I am not across the regs for Formula Ford but we always use a machined Steel Flywheel.(unless the 1600 had a steel one)
The reason of course is that Cast ones tend to shatter with bits flying off in every direction, possibly wrecking parts of the car and injuring people. I saw one let go at Winton Raceway and 4 cars ended up with serious damage .
There other other advantages which I won't go into here in case the FF regs don't allow them.

FF 1600 regs mandate standard Ford flywheel. You can machine to minimum weight of 11.79kg for flywheel and pressure plate so you can take a few kgs off. They are still pretty hefty though which might explain why they don't shatter. Also, these cars weigh 400kg so maybe the stress on components isn't as great as with a Cortina.